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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 209 of 21 January 2021, when the independent review of the design and implementation of the calculated grades process will be completed; if the review will be published; if she is waiting on the findings of the report before making a decision on calculated grades for 2021 leaving certificate students; and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (3 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending carer’s allowance to be available to care recipients of dependent personality disorder given they are not currently deemed eligible despite meeting requirements regarding requirements for continual supervision as set out under section 179(4) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005;...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (3 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the date on which the Social Welfare Appeals Office began oral hearings by telephone and online; the number of oral hearings by phone and telephone held each month since they were introduced; the benefits and allowances being appealed; and the number of appeals heard by phone or telephone in which there was a favourable...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (3 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 430. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of oral hearings held by the Social Welfare Appeals Office each month during 2020. [5639/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (3 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently waiting for an oral hearing for an appeal to the Social Welfare Appeals Office; and the current waiting time. [5640/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (3 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has examined the introduction of an appeals process for the pandemic unemployment benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5641/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (3 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 433. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department provides written decisions to claimants in which a payment they have been receiving has been suspended. [5642/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 643. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered providing financial assistance to the most vulnerable, including those who continue to have to go out to work as essential workers, with the cost of face masks; if he will engage with the Minister for Social Protection on the possibility of making such a payment available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5144/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 644. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by vulnerable persons, including cancer patients, in meeting the cost of the high-quality face masks they are advised to wear; if the matter will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5145/21]

Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I will allow time for the Minister and Minister of State to respond. I join with them in paying tribute to the Department of Social Protection staff, who have clearly been working under extreme pressure since Covid first hit and are due great credit for the work they have done. I always find them to be extremely helpful and I thank them for all their service in this last year. My first...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (28 Jan 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NDLS will be allowing for the extension of driver licences given the latest level 5 Covid restrictions; if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties persons are having with only being able to renew their driver licences online at this time and that those without access to a computer cannot seek assistance at their local...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Jan 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request the banks and all financial institutions to introduce mortgage breaks without additional interest for mortgage holders in order to support them in the midst of these most serious level 5 Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4843/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Jan 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow choice for 2021 leaving certificate students; if she will make her intentions known on plans for these students before the end of January 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4842/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Occupational Injuries Benefit (28 Jan 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 178. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has explored adding long Covid to the list of prescribed occupational illnesses for the purposes of the occupational injury scheme; if so, the estimated or range of estimates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4790/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit (28 Jan 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 179. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has explored extending the duration that Covid-19 enhanced illness benefit may be paid beyond the current maximum of ten weeks; if so, the estimated cost or range of estimates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4791/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (28 Jan 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged between 18 and 24 years of age who are in receipt of a reduced jobseeker’s payment. [4831/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jan 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if educational courses that require placements are seeking public health advice before asking students to go ahead with such placements; if not, if he will request that such advice be sought on behalf of students to ensure their health and safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4829/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jan 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 275. To ask the Minister for Health the position of dialysis patients in the allocation group for Covid-19 vaccines given that they are regularly in hospital and the increased risk to them of the transmission of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4833/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Jan 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 276. To ask the Minister for Health if a product (details supplied) has been evaluated for reimbursement; if so, the status of the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4834/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Jan 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 278. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the significant delays being experienced by allied healthcare professionals in receiving their CORU registration resulting in many newly qualified occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and physiotherapists being unable to apply for available jobs and in some cases having to take up job offers abroad; if...